Kolkata: Former Maharashtra inspector general of
police SM Mushrif on Tuesday accused the Intelligence Bureau (IB) of being
hand-in-glove with right-wing extremists, and called for a ban on the RSS
describing it as India's No.1 terror organisation.

At the launch of the Bengali version of his book
"RSS - Country's Greatest Terror Organisation" here, Mushrif also
termed the ongoing JNU controversy as a manifestation of the Rashtriya
Swayamsevak Sangh's (RSS) bid to get India declared a Hindu nation.

"The IB has been and continues to be the most
powerful organisation in the country and irrespective of which political party
is in power at the centre, it continues to operate the way it wants.

"Whatever the IB says or does is considered the
truth and its claims or acts are never questioned or verified," said
Mushrif, indicting the agency for colluding with the RSS and its subsidiaries
for the killing of anti-terror squad chief Hemant Karkare, who was probing the
involvement of Hindu radicals in terror acts.

Karkare was killed during the 2008 Mumbai terror
attack.

"No other terror organisation has used RDX like
the RSS has. At least 18 chargesheets have been filed against the RSS and its
subsidiaries like Abhinav Bharat and Bajrang Dal in terror cases.

"The RSS should be immediately banned for being
the country's No.1 terror organisation," said Mushrif.

"This is only a manifestation of the RSS's bid to
establish the Aryavart Hindu Rashtra based on the tenets of Smritis and Vedas.
It’s time the entire country stood up against this rise of extremism,"
said the author of "Who Killed Karkare?: The Real Face of Terrorism in
India".